(5.) “Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty.”—­Blair cor. “Writers that deal,” &c.—­Murray cor. “The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female.”—­Merchant cor. “The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex.”—­Kirkham cor. “Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender.”—­Wells’s Gram. of late, p. 55.  Better thus:  “Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender.”—­Wells cor. “Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties.”—­Blair cor. “Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian’s province.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit.”—­Id. “After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate.”—­Id. “Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught.”—­A.  B. Johnson cor.

(6.) “It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied.”—­Blair cor. “It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant.”—­Id. “I hope it is not I that he is displeased with.”—­L.  Murray cor. “When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure.”—­Campbell cor. “This sort of full and ample assertion, ‘It is this that,’ is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down.”—­Blair cor. “She is not the person that I understood it to have been.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?”—­Inst., p. 267.  “It was not I that shut it.”—­Ib.

(7.) “He is not the person that he seemed to be.”—­Murray and Ingersoll cor. “He is really the person that he appeared to be.”—­Iid. “She is not now the woman that they represented her to have been.”—­Iid. “An only child is one that has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one that is left by itself, or unaccompanied.”—­Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.

(1.) “A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever we conceive to subsist, or of whatever we merely imagine.”—­Lowth cor. (2.) “A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion.”—­Murray et al. cor. (3.) “A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that exists, or that we can have an idea of.”—­Frost cor. (4.) “A noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we form an idea.”—­Hallock